As a youngster, Mr. Behar was "completely a Lego fanatic, building entire landscapes," he said, but the puzzle is not something he plays with for hours.

"We must build landscapes that heal and empower, that make intelligible our relations with each other and the natural world."

For their daughters' Shalom Bat, or baby-naming celebrations, Mr. Kahn built and painted landscapes on three additional chairs, in which his wife, mother and mother-in-law welcomed the next generation of female children into the family.

But for large establishing shots, or an enormous backdrop that will only be seen once, the matte painters use a combination of 2D Photoshop collages and 3D models to build realistic landscapes that fit within the style of the animated film.

Early Americans built agricultural landscapes of canals and ridges, temples, moats, and causeways with no metal tools and no wheeled carts or wagons.

MAP CONSTRUCTION, known internationally as A-Train Construction Set, is an editor that can change existing saved games, or to build landscapes from scratch.

And illusion-she could build whole landscapes with that, or make people seem invisible.

The Architect Africa Film Festival screens films about built environments or urban landscapes or anything to do with modern city life.

Alex Hartley (born 1963) is a British artist whose work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward built environments and landscapes.

As an installation artist, mudboy builds mysterious landscapes that hearken back to the ambient noise-filled landscapes which fill his music.